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- From: egilberg@oslonett.no (Einar Bergsmo Gilberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Amiga vs. PC
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 21:12:50 GMT
- Organization: SN Internett
- Message-ID: <4glavu$dlq@hasle.sn.no>
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- I have own an Amiga 500 since it first arrived in 1987. The computer
- has worked very good, and I am very fond of it, although I don't use
- it too much now a days :)
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- In 1993, I bought a 486-33 MHz PC, mainly because a lot of friends had
- one, and a lot of great programs was available. This, I believe is the
- only reason to own a PC, because the computer alone, sucks.
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- I have a friend, who insists that the PC is superior over the Amiga. I
- tell him, that he can't compare a A500 with a Pentium, but try
- checking out the A4000. He believes the A4000 cannot compare either.
- I tell him about the Amigas true multitasking, and the PC's bad
- operating systems, and all the resources needed, but he just ignores
- it. I even tell him to look at some games. On the Amiga 500, if we
- play Project-X for example, the game runs smoothly, and every thing
- works fine. On the PC, however the graphics tends to get slow if there
- is alot of spaceships on the screen at once. The differences is
- enormous, even though the PC's processor is multiple times faster in
- theory.
-
- I wonder if anyone can give me some information about why the Amiga is
- so much faster than the PC. My belief is that the Amiga has a lot of
- processors for every single operation, ex. one for sound, one for
- graphics etc. In the PC, the mainprocessor does all the work. This is
- right, isn't it? I hope someone can answer me, and explain it in a way
- that I can convince my friend.
-
- By the way, anyone have any info of the upcoming Amiga models. Will
- they be GREAT? Do you believe the Amiga will ever be, what it once
- were, eg. just as much people having an Amiga as before? Will the
- Amiga run PC-programs?
-
- Sorry for all the questions, and the long mail. I have been off the
- "game" for a long time. I want to be updated..
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Einar B Gilberg
- NORWAY
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- e-mail: egilberg@oslonett.no
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